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When we were ready we would take a walk, perhaps down to La Boqueria, the food market that we both loved,
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We can just hang out and walk and read and talk and stuff.
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Dont run before you can walk
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Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
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At some point, I'd like to have an origina l idea. And I'd like to be fancied, or maybe loved even, but I'll wait and see.
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No-one ever built a statue of a critic.
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Their lips touched now, mouths pursed tight, their eyes open, both of them stock still. The moment held, a kind of such glorious confusion.
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He looks at the glass, almost ritualistically, then drains it, and thinks: not drinking would be so much easier if it wasn't so delicious.
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Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.
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... she was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same - you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.
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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
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had put them up to it, perhaps the chefs
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For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must ...
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Living in her University town felt like stayng on at a party that everyone else had left.
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You can't expect people to build their lives around you
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But they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
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And then it was over
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Call me or I'll call you, but one of us will call, yes? What I mean is it's not a competition. You don't lose I you phone first.
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You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
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Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
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In fact he was rather boring on the subject, but I kept quiet and took comfort in that old saying about fallen apples and their distance from trees.
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference
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Why can't you just love me? Why can't you just be in love with me?
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I'm inclined to think that, after a certain age, our tastes, instincts and inclinations harden like concrete.
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Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.
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You know, if I ruled the world, which I fully intend to do one day by the way, first thing I'd do ...
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Be good. Do something good.
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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
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I think reality is overrated.
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Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
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It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
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... mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates ...
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realist works I look for detail; 'Look at the eyelashes!
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you.
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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
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[He] didn't like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
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It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present. Charles Dickens, David Copperfield
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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It's rapidly becoming clear that the so-called best years of my life are never going to happen
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Things should look right, Fun; there should be a lot of fun and no more sadness than absolutely necessary
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Suki is the nation's ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.
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Though not my field, I was familiar with the notion of alternative realities, but was not used to occupying the one I liked the best.
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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately ,experience new things, love and be loved.
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As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than relationships.
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Conversation, the gradual unveiling of oneself, one's quirks and characteristics, opinions and beliefs; what a fraught and awkward business that is.
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I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.''I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret. — David Nicholls
As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.
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Ah, solving that question Brings the priest and the doctor In their
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And by the time the train pulls into the station, I find myself actually relieved that Emily's only a figment of my imagination.
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my digs look as if they've been dug
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Okay then, smile and...
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For Stephen, London was less a city that never slept, more a city that got a good nine hours.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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Everyone likes me. It's my curse.
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Best to leave quietly, and no reunions. Move on, and look to the future. Plenty more faces out there.
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Imagine staying awake all night not because you're worried about the future but because it's FUN
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She could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind.'You could be breathing fire and I wouldn't mind,' I say. — David Nicholls
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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The unrequited love of ones' only living offspring has its own particular slow acid burn
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Josh likes to say he put the funk in 'functional'. Personally I think he just put the ass in 'embarrassing', but, hey, what do I know?
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Recklessness, spontaneity didn't really suit her, she couldn't carry if off, the results were never what she hoped for.
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He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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I'm not expressing myself very well - ''Dexter, I understand you perfectly, that's the problem - — David Nicholls
A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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You must do what you enjoy.
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They have started to arrive. An endless cascade of luxuriously quilted envelopes, thumping onto the doormat. The wedding invitations.
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Their friendship was like a wilted bunch of flowers that she insisted on topping up with water. Why not let it die instead?
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I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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Brian: I love booksProf. Morrison: The contents of books, or just owning a whole load of books? — David Nicholls
And is that what love looks like all wet mouths and your skirt rucked up?"
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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.
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Then they kiss again, and she goes to work, and he goes to work, and so the days go by, faster than ever.
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